Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses by the department (DOJ) and FBI has been completed. He recently told lawmakers that he had submitted a draft report to the attorney general and is preparing a final draft.

“This step is consistent with our process for reports such as this one that involve classified material.”

He added that once the DOJ and the FBI sends a marked document back indicating classified information, the inspector general office will “proceed with our usual process for preparing final draft public and classified reports, and ensuring that appropriate reviews occur for accuracy and comment purposes.”

Top FBI and DOJ officials signed off on the FISA application to spy on Page, despite evidence that Steele’s dossier was unverified and that the former British spy was biased against Trump. The FISA application omitted the fact that the Clinton campaign funded the dossier, as well as exculpatory details of Page’s assistance to the FBI.

Horowitz wasn’t the only one probing the alleged misconduct into surveillance of the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. Earlier this year, Attorney General William Barr assigned U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in Connecticut to investigate whether spying on President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 was adequately predicated.

Durham will scrutinize the conduct of several current and former senior FBI officials, including former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok. Those officials were involved in obtaining a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign associate Carter Page and deployed at least two spies to target Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.

Epoch Times reporter Ivan Pentchoukov contributed to this report.

Correction: Lead updated to more accurately reflect the status of the investigation.

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